High surf and heavy flooding from Hurricane Sandy last October left a home on an island at the base of the Mantoloking Bridge in Brick, N.J.Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger

Jersey City has received two grants totaling $210,000 to fund a project studying how the city can adapt to coastal flooding of the kind Hurricane Sandy brought to the region last year.

The grants come courtesy of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA), which will hand over $100,000, and from Together New Jersey, which will give the city $110,000. The NOAA grant is one of four given out nationally, the city says.

The city will work on the project, called “Collaborative Climate Adaptation Planning for Urban Coastal Flooding,” with Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium.

The primary scientific goals of the project are to provide basic information on flooding for Jersey City planners; develop a set of realistic coastal adaptation options to prevent or reduce future flooding; and produce a report that would allow others in the region to see the findings.